STS-55, Columbia (April 26, 1993)

[centurion180ad]

Blabber, blabber, blabber.....  Why does mister blabbermouth have to spoil the video as if this is a dufus gridiron football game? Howard Cosell was AWFUL, and this is WORSE.

[cag1970]

@centurion180ad, it's the man's job to comment on the launch. Without him, people wouldn't understand some of what's going on during the ascent.

[ridel1293]

Hey this is my Birthday 2 !! Best Day !

[cag1970]

No kidding! A lot of people born on April 26! Hope you all had happy birthdays this year and that your birthdays in the future will be nothing less than spectacular!

[JohniMcBong]

@cag1970 hehe, i was born early on the 26th april 1993

[TheoStenner]

more birthdays then anything else here

also my birthday! yaaayy! :D

[turkishbabe19]

0h.. 16 years. Happy birthday people

[OentOent]

Do you also have the aborted launch of STS-55 (March 22, 1993)?

[cag1970]

No, I'm afraid I don't have that on tape. But it seems like I do have another aborted launch--a night shot, if I'm right, of the shuttle Columbia, when it was to deliver the Chandra X-Ray Observatory to orbit. I'll have to dig through my tapes and see if I still have it.

[OentOent]

You mean one from 1999 which is aborted at T-7 just before the ignition of the three main engines?

[cag1970]

I believe that's the one...If the engines had fired, it would've set the launch back several days.

[turkishbabe19]

this was on a monday =X

[turkishbabe19]

0h shitt my birthdayyy :| hii guyss

[aitakseb]

my birthday xD

[ilynspiration]

haha, that was my birthday too (=

[x0cristina8]

april 26, 1993

thats the day i was born.

does anyone know what time this shuttle took off?

[Justblackgold]

Me too! XD Cool!

[shuttleluis]

I still remember this day.

it was my 30th birthay and the video quality was better but still great. thank you for poisting ;)

[latifsener]

an diesen tag wurde ich geboren

[cag1970]

alles gute zum geburtstag

[latifsener]

danke =)

[pissklumpen]

loool - it's my birthday^^

[byakuganmaggot]

it was mines 2

[militaryflyboy22]

Dude ive well kinda been to one, I was mabey 6 or 7 years old in 2001 and I wzs flying down to florda with my family and i saw this shuttel take off.Its a whole nother world when your even with a shuttel at 35000 feet. Its a beautiful sight

[vicky6797]

i was there!

[cag1970]

That must have been incredible! I'd love to see a shuttle launch in person!

[vicky6797]

yeah i went to florida when i was 8 and my dad dragged us over there at 6 in the morning. i knew it was good but i would definately appreciate it more now i'm a lot older

[Connecticut2009]

CONTINUED LOOK GOOD

[vietxricer]

I was born on this day

[nasarockstar]

Ok?

Happy Birthday?

lol

[Connecticut2009]

Viva la NASA

[govideo222]

NASA TV can be watched live on _VDC.COM_

[BigBill783]

Yeah ive seen it many times--ok my friend-thought id run that by ya-thanks anyway.

[BigBill783]

Hey cag, if you have any others from 1993 or around that time--id be happy to see--although theyre probably collecting dust in a closet or somewhere.

[cag1970]

BigBill, the only other one that I have from 1993 is STS-61, Endeavour, launching to repair HST. It's also out here on YouTube.

[BigBill783]

Yup- Kevin Chilton--he's a 4-star general now--Commander of US Air Force Space Command

[JMChladek]

The ascent capcom sounds like Kevin Chilton, am I right?

[cag1970]

It may be...I don't know for sure...

[Brianyankeefan]

who did sts-105?

[BigBill783]

STS-105 was Lisa Malone followed by Eileen Hawley for ascent

[BigBill783]

that was Joel Wells on STS-92--he also did STS-99 the SRTM mission [shuttle radar topography mission] and STS-102--thats the last i heard him do a launch. Wells sounds alot like Mitch Varnes-who youre hearing in this STS-55 video

[Brianyankeefan]

who did sts-92?

[upinfection]

Discovery.

[Brianyankeefan]

kellie humphries was the guy after bruce commentating sts-116

[Brianyankeefan]

what about bruce buckingham , rob navias and kellie humphries

[cag1970]

I'm familiar with Rob Navias. I've heard of Bruce Buckingham, but I don't know Kellie Humphries.

[BigBill783]

You hear 2 announcer guys--1st one here is Mitch Varnes--Kennedy Space Center [Florida]--Varnes has since moved on to other things. After the shuttle lifts off you hear Kyle Herring in Houston--he's still around--the sound of his voice has changed slightly over the yrs

[cag1970]

I'm most familiar with the voices of Hugh Harris (who called the launches up through STS-51L), Lisa Malone (who calls the launch of Daedalus in the movie Space Cowboys) and George Diller.

[upinfection]

the anouncer guy is much better here then he is to day

[BigBill783]

Nice one--nice to see STS-55 launch-i missed seeing this one-this was shortly before i got interested in watching and following these shuttle launches and landings--if you happen to have any more shuttle launches like this from around 1993--or any others from the 80s, 90s-i missed a bunch of them over the years--i watched and taped several over the years on CNN and/or NASA TV and in some cases ive lost the tapes i once had.nice to see this--STS-55 and the STS-61 video you have up as well

[cag1970]

Hi, BigBill...Thanks for the kind words...I hope to have the latest shuttle launch (STS-114) up on the site really soon.